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This article first appeared on Billboard.com.
Beyonce is on course to score her longest-running No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart. Based on sales forecasts from industry sources, her new self-titled set should stay put atop next week’s Billboard 200 for a third consecutive week.
Sources suggest the album could sell upwards of 250,000 copies by the end of the tracking week on Sunday, Dec. 29. This past week, it spent its second frame at No. 1, moving 617,000 according to Nielsen SoundScan. In the album’s first 10 days of release, it sold 991,000 copies.
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If Beyonce is No. 1 for a third week, it will mark the diva’s longest-reigning chart-topper. While all five of her studio albums have reached No. 1, her longest rule atop the list is two weeks (for both Beyonce and 4).
The new Billboard 200’s top 10 will be revealed on Thursday, Jan. 2.
As for the rest of the top 10, expect to see familiar faces like One Direction’s Midnight Memories, Eminem‘s The Marshall Mathers LP 2 and Katy Perry‘s PRISM. The three albums are among the many that are experiencing a surge in sales after Christmas. It’s traditional to see lots of albums earn increases in the week after Christmas, as consumers redeem newly-acquired gift cards (for digital download stores, especially).
Another release that’s selling well is Justin Bieber‘s new collection, Journals, which bowed on Monday, Dec. 23. The 15-song set contains 10 previously released tunes (made available as part of his weekly Music Mondays series) and five new cuts. The project — exclusively sold through the iTunes Store — could sell over 100,000. However, Billboard has been informed that iTunes will not be reporting sales for the set to Nielsen SoundScan, therefore it will not appear on Billboard’s charts.
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